Bad Computer Habits can Lead to Problems

We’re not just talking about a minor “ooh, we lost a boot sector” thing, where we could boot to a different drive and copy the files off.

No, we’re talking an extreme catastrophic event where we lost the entire drive. It was physically unable to spin up, making data recovery rather impossible on our own. Luckily, we made a few phone calls and found a data recovery company that was able to rebuild the drive’s data and copy it to a new disc.

Needless to say, Web Watch has been rather diligent about drive backups for all our systems… just in case something like that happens again. We hope it won’t. It really shouldn’t. But it might, and this time we’re significantly better prepared.

Which leads us to a Washington Post article on the TOP 25 WORST HIGH-TECH HABITS that most tech-minded folks are probably all doing at some point. We’re going to list the worst habits here – you’re going to have to click through the link to see the suggested solutions on how to overcome them: